Denis Lehane: Fatted calf could be the finish of me

My knees are bandy, my arms are aching, my back is well on the way to being broken. I’m ruined entirely, I’m telling you, and there is no point in saying otherwise.

And it’s all the fault of top class dairy farmers and their monsters of calves.

This year, breaking with tradition, I made a deal with a few progressive local dairy farmers to buy calves directly from them, thus avoiding getting all hot and bothered down at the mart.